This is an exciting year for both ScreenCrave and myself as both a journalist and a filmmaker as I’ll be attempting to cover the festival from both angles (as if one position wasn’t hard enough already!). As always, ScreenCrave will be down there with their team to bring you breaking news and live blogs out of Hall H, videos of filmmakers and fans alike, interviews with everyone you could ever want interviews with at Comic-Con and of course photos of many of the outrageous things that go on down when adults relive their teenage years.

But! This year will also be a bit different because this year will be the first ever Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival (CCI-IFF) and by the luck of the draw and me stumbling into a group of ridiculously talented filmmakers, I will actually be in the film, The Price playing at the festival.

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I always feel odd about writing films that I’m involved in, but when something great comes along you can’t just ignore it! So here I go! The Price is a post-modern “western” short film that is currently in pre-production and set to be co-directed by James St. Vincent and Zeke Pinheiro. The film explores the difference between an outlaw and a criminal and draws inspiration from John Carpenter & The Three Sergios (Sollima, Leone, Corbucci) — pretty cool right? The film is set in an economically ravaged New York City with no central authority, the story centers around two bandits and a bounty hunter.

The filmmakers have put together a small feature for the film, which explains it far better than I ever could. Check it out…

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